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About a year after cutting staff by 29%, Sana Biotechnology will trim its workforce as it increases investment in its type 1 diabetes program and looks to extend its cash runway.

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Despite the PDUFA date being extended by three months for Merus’ zenocutuzumab, Truist Securities analyst Asthika Goonewardene in a Tuesday note to investors said the delay is not a cause for concern with an approval expected.

A suit against Novartis and Vitaris by Henrietta Lacks’ estate hinges on questions about the morality and legality of using the line for biopharmaceutical research.

While expected and seen as largely incremental, Jefferies analyst Peter Welford in a Tuesday note to investors said the detailed data for three early-stage assets support moving them into Phase IIb studies and creates a “foothold” for AstraZeneca in the weight loss space.

Coming off of a strong third quarter, Vertex Pharmaceuticals is nearing several important milestones, including the potential approvals of vanzacaftor triple in cystic fibrosis and the non-opioid therapy suzetrigine in pain—both slated for January 2025.

In a deal worth up to $285 million initially for the lead program, Novo Nordisk will gain access to Ascendis’ TransCon technology platform in an effort to find novel GLP-1 candidates with reduced dosing frequency.

Driven by the early approval of its updated COVID-19 vaccine, BioNTech far exceeded analysts’ expectations in the third quarter and reported its first quarterly profit in 2024. However, the German biotech also cut its outlook for the year.

Multiple players are exploring whether modalities designed to combat B cell malignancies can be repurposed against lupus, myasthenia gravis and other conditions traced to misdirected immune response.

The Big Pharma companies made a last-ditch effort asking a U.S. appeals court to reconsider their lawsuits against the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare drug price negotiations, which they contend infringe on their constitutional rights.

Jefferies analyst Roger Song in an investor note said that Viking Therapeutics’ readout for its investigational therapy VK2735 exceeded expectations, with “class-leading” weight loss. Patients on 100-miligram doses of the pill lost 8.2% of their body weight after 28 days.

The FDA is set to decide on four promising therapies in the next two weeks, including a CAR T for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

66.6% of OST-HER2 treated patients achieved 2-year overall survival compared with 40% in the historical control group (p = 0.0046) FDA issues Biologics Licensing Application (BLA) number for OST-HER2 in preparation for anticipated BLA filing for the prevention or delay of recurrent, fully resected, pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma following August 27, 2025 End of Phase 2 Meeting Company responds to FDA correspondences seeking to align approval metrics for Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation, Breakthrough Therapy designation (BTD) and Biologics Licensing Application via Accelerated Approval Program Company’s NYSE American listing included in the Russell Microcap, Russell Microcap Value and Russell Microcap Growth indexes

MHRA seeks to harmonize UK & US regulatory review via Project Orbis EMA Rapporteur Scientific Advice Meeting scheduled for October 2025

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